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Originally Posted by Kibwe Walker
years ago we had a Alabama 3s meet in Huntsville and we were doing some night races at the old airport and on that outing there was a green base SOHC that took out a DOHC atx consistantly.
At that airport I was getting up to about 105ish before I had to hit the brakes so they had to be doing in the low 90's when they shut down.
It was about a 1/4 mile race. The SOHC beat the ATX everytime, convincingly. I was shocked, but it happens, and it was a ATX so there couldn't be any driver error.
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Not shocking at all really, the ATX gearing KILLS the low end of these low displacement cars. My car doesn't wake up until around the middle of second gear, and then it screams.... Probably great for races from 75 to 120, but in regular stoplight to stoplight or yes, even the 1/4 mile at these power levels it really slows you down.